Pascin

Joann Sfar’s Pascin, too, departs from the conventional in presenting a portrait of the artist in his shirt tails—both literally and figuratively. In skittering lines, Sfar sketches vignettes from the life of a bohemian artist for whom the act of drawing was always intensely sexual, a way of possessing the subject. In these loose improvisations, Sfar is really exploring his own ideas about art and sexuality—inventing biography as autobiography, in one critic’s words.